It’s the battle of the titans! Or at least, a storage of how David (ScaleIO) crushes Goliath (Ceph) with 6x the performance! You read the blog posting (http://cloudscaling.com/blog/cloud-computing/killing-the-storage-unicorn-purpose-built-scaleio-spanks-multi-purpose-ceph-on-performance/), now see it live. We’ll run Ceph side by side against ScaleIO and measure block storage performance using a live system. Let’s put these distributed storage systems through their paces and test performance of a few different configurations then discuss why architectural differences lead to the huge performance gap. Then we’ll go through audience Q&A on ScaleIO architecture and design principles. Audience members who ask questions will be eligible to win a free giveaway!